[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/ice: add safe mode support devarg

Qi Zhang qi.z.zhang at intel.com
Wed Jul 10 06:16:30 CEST 2019


Safe mode support is not necessary by default.
Driver be initialized without OS package silently may confuse users
since most advanced feature are disabled.
Add devarg for safe mode enabling only for when user intend to do this.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
---
-v3:
  fix wrong logic in parse_bool.

-v2:
  fix missing return value check from ice_parse_devargs.
  minor document update.

 doc/guides/nics/ice.rst      | 11 +++++++
 drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h |  8 ++++++
 3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
index e9b3a48bc..03819d29f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
@@ -49,6 +49,17 @@ Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
 Runtime Config Options
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+- ``Safe Mode Support`` (default ``0``)
+
+  If driver failed to load OS package, by default driver's initialization failed.
+  But if user intend to use the device without OS package, user can take ``devargs``
+  parameter ``safe-mode-support``, for example::
+
+    -w 80:00.0,safe-mode-support=1
+
+  Then the driver will be initialized successfully and the device will enter Safe Mode.
+  NOTE: In Safe mode, only very limited features are available, features like RSS,
+  checksum, fdir, tunneling ... are all disabled.
 
 Driver compilation and testing
 ------------------------------
diff --git a/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c
index 4b5cd8269..a7cbe0848 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@
 #include "ice_rxtx.h"
 #include "ice_switch_filter.h"
 
+/* devargs */
+#define ICE_SAFE_MODE_SUPPORT_ARG "safe-mode-support"
+
+static const char * const ice_valid_args[] = {
+	ICE_SAFE_MODE_SUPPORT_ARG,
+	NULL
+};
+
 #define ICE_DFLT_OUTER_TAG_TYPE ICE_AQ_VSI_OUTER_TAG_VLAN_9100
 #define ICE_DFLT_PKG_FILE "/lib/firmware/intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg"
 
@@ -1334,6 +1342,50 @@ ice_base_queue_get(struct ice_pf *pf)
 }
 
 static int
+parse_bool(const char *key, const char *value, void *args)
+{
+	int *i = (int *)args;
+	char *end;
+	int num;
+
+	num = strtoul(value, &end, 10);
+
+	if (num != 0 && num != 1) {
+		PMD_DRV_LOG(WARNING, "invalid value:\"%s\" for key:\"%s\", "
+			"value must be 0 or 1",
+			value, key);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	*i = num;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int ice_parse_devargs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
+{
+	struct ice_adapter *ad =
+		ICE_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_ADAPTER(dev->data->dev_private);
+	struct rte_devargs *devargs = dev->device->devargs;
+	struct rte_kvargs *kvlist;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (devargs == NULL)
+		return 0;
+
+	kvlist = rte_kvargs_parse(devargs->args, ice_valid_args);
+	if (kvlist == NULL) {
+		PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "Invalid kvargs key\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, ICE_SAFE_MODE_SUPPORT_ARG,
+				 &parse_bool, &ad->devargs.safe_mode_support);
+
+	rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static int
 ice_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev;
@@ -1366,6 +1418,12 @@ ice_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	hw->bus.device = pci_dev->addr.devid;
 	hw->bus.func = pci_dev->addr.function;
 
+	ret = ice_parse_devargs(dev);
+	if (ret) {
+		PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "Failed to parse devargs");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	ice_init_controlq_parameter(hw);
 
 	ret = ice_init_hw(hw);
@@ -1376,8 +1434,14 @@ ice_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 
 	ret = ice_load_pkg(dev);
 	if (ret) {
+		if (ad->devargs.safe_mode_support == 0) {
+			PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "Failed to load the DDP package,"
+					"Use safe-mode-support=1 to enter Safe Mode");
+			return ret;
+		}
+
 		PMD_INIT_LOG(WARNING, "Failed to load the DDP package,"
-				"Entering Safe Mode");
+					"Entering Safe Mode");
 		ad->is_safe_mode = 1;
 	}
 
@@ -3693,6 +3757,8 @@ static struct rte_pci_driver rte_ice_pmd = {
 RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI(net_ice, rte_ice_pmd);
 RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI_TABLE(net_ice, pci_id_ice_map);
 RTE_PMD_REGISTER_KMOD_DEP(net_ice, "* igb_uio | uio_pci_generic | vfio-pci");
+RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PARAM_STRING(net_ice,
+			      ICE_SAFE_MODE_SUPPORT_ARG "=<0|1>");
 
 RTE_INIT(ice_init_log)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h b/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h
index 8a52239f5..f569da833 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h
@@ -274,6 +274,13 @@ struct ice_pf {
 };
 
 /**
+ * Cache devargs parse result.
+ */
+struct ice_devargs {
+	int safe_mode_support;
+};
+
+/**
  * Structure to store private data for each PF/VF instance.
  */
 struct ice_adapter {
@@ -286,6 +293,7 @@ struct ice_adapter {
 	/* ptype mapping table */
 	uint32_t ptype_tbl[ICE_MAX_PKT_TYPE] __rte_cache_min_aligned;
 	bool is_safe_mode;
+	struct ice_devargs devargs;
 };
 
 struct ice_vsi_vlan_pvid_info {
-- 
2.13.6



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